The Persian Fall

The Persian legend preserved in the Boun-dehesch is, however, still more conclusive. According to this legend Meschia and Meschiané, the first man and woman, were seduced by Ahriman, under the form of a serpent, and they then first committed "in thought, word, and action, the carnal sin, and thus tainted with original sin all their descendants. "

Westropp, Hodder M. and C. Staniland Wake, Ancient symbol worship: Influence of the phallic idea in the religions of antiquity, New York: J. W. Bouton, 1874, p. 47.